The Contraction Of Time: A Brief History Of Nursing

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Nursing is medical a field which encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of different age, families, group, and communities in aid of facilitating the medical wellness of the individual. The history of nursing and its origin in the USA sets back in the early 1900s. Nursing history is the longest this because it traces a long history which sprouted from the USA hence it explains the perspectives of nursing work that is regarded as the most caring and respected profession. Nursing history teaches that is primarily emotional and relational. For example, in the case of the film, it shows that the nurses are not well cared by the relevant authority. In that, they are not well paid, and also they are not well cared in the social amenities that motivate them to perform their work. …show more content…

The documentary depicts America's largest group of professional nursing women with comprehensive and compelling exploration and sometimes fanciful mythology characterized with the field of nursing since its inception in the mid-19th century. The contraction of time outlines the essence of modern technology that threatens to displace the compassion that has always been at the heart of the profession. Exploitative characters are depicted in the film; the racial and sexual discrimination, with which nursing has had to contend. It also documents the part played by student nurses in cleaning up early American hospitals, nursing's great contribution to public health, and the continuing difficult and essential role of nurses in the military. A large degree of humor and poignant are some of the impression of the sentimental women with the multilayered portrait of

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